Hearings for Education Committee

The order of the bills listed may not be the order in which they are heard that day in committee.

Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Thursday November 20, 2025
Location: Room 1510
Time: 9:00 AM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LR189
Introducer: Dorn
Description: Interim study to examine the financing of public education through the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act formula and develop recommendations for improving school funding in Nebraska
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: Special
Introducer:
Description: School Finance Commission Report
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Thursday November 06, 2025
Location: Room 1524
Time: 9:00 AM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LR205
Introducer: Strommen
Description: Interim study to examine barriers to and benefits of data sharing between the State Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services for purposes of the Early Childhood Integrated Data System
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LR204
Introducer: Juarez
Description: Interim study to examine the causes of burnout in kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers and its impact on teachers and students
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Tuesday October 28, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:00 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LR202
Introducer: Sorrentino
Description: Interim study to explore a landscape analysis of the various higher education teacher preparation programs around the state
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Wednesday April 16, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:00 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: Appointment
Introducer:
Description: Smith, Clay - Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: Appointment
Introducer:
Description: Turman, Paul - Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Tuesday March 18, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: Appointment
Introducer:
Description: Kime, Duane - Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB671
Introducer: Murman
Description: Change and eliminate provisions relating to reports regarding the enrollment option program, programs for expelled students, educator evaluations, information related to dyslexia, the Nebraska Teacher Apprenticeship Program, high-need retention grants, property tax request documentation, and the College Pathway Program and eliminate obsolete provisions and provisions relating to the Junior Mathematics Prognosis Examination
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB681
Introducer: Education Committee
Description: Change provisions relating to the definition of graduate degree program
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB680
Introducer: Education Committee
Description: Change provisions relating to educational service units
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Monday March 17, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB551
Introducer: Lippincott
Description: Prohibit tenure at certain postsecondary educational institutions and require a written policy regarding terms and conditions of employment
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB552
Introducer: Lippincott
Description: Prohibit public postsecondary educational institutions from having a diversity, equity, and inclusion office and taking certain actions relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB149
Introducer: Hansen
Description: Eliminate the prohibition on suspending a student in prekindergarten through second grade
Note: LBs 149 and 430 will have a combined hearing.
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB430
Introducer: Murman
Description: Provide an additional exception to the prohibition on suspending a student in prekindergarten through second grade and change provisions relating to short-term and long-term suspension under the Student Discipline Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB682
Introducer: Education Committee
Description: Update terminology relating to individualized education programs for high school students
Currently or Pending before the Committee
6
Document: AM566
Introducer: Murman
Description: Amending LB682
Note: LB 682 and AM566 will have a combined hearing.
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Tuesday March 11, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB599
Introducer: DeBoer
Description: Require the State Board of Education to adopt a policy relating to cybersecurity
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB523
Introducer: Juarez
Description: Adopt the Student Teacher Compensation Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB524
Introducer: Juarez
Description: Authorize paraeducator grants under the Nebraska Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act and change eligible uses of the Education Future Fund
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB711
Introducer: Hunt
Description: Change provisions relating to the new school adjustment under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Monday March 10, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB440
Introducer: Spivey
Description: Adopt the Education Leave and Support Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB411
Introducer: Dungan
Description: Change provisions relating to the Nebraska Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB652
Introducer: Hansen
Description: Terminate the Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Note: LB 652 and LR 28CA will have a combined hearing.
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LR28CA
Introducer: Hansen
Description: Constitutional amendment to eliminate provisions creating the Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB49
Introducer: McKinney
Description: Provide for a model ban and bar policy for school districts
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Monday March 03, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB550
Introducer: Lippincott
Description: Require school districts to adopt a policy that excuses students to attend a course for religious instruction
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB142
Introducer: Hughes
Description: Redefine a term under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB572
Introducer: Hughes
Description: Authorize a school district to exceed its budget authority for stipends paid to a student teacher and change the applicability of the School District Property Tax Limitation Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB528
Introducer: Jacobson
Description: Change and eliminate provisions relating to grants from the State Department of Education Improvement Grant Fund
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB497
Introducer: Murman
Description: Provide for admission of and participation in extracurricular activities by certain students that are not residents of the school district
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Tuesday February 25, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB557
Introducer: Armendariz
Description: Change provisions relating to the enrollment option program, provide funding to students denied option enrollment, and eliminate provisions relating to open enrollment option students and diversity plans
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB633
Introducer: Hansen
Description: Change provisions relating to applications rejected under the enrollment option program and create the Nebraska Option Enrollment Tuition Account Program
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB427
Introducer: Andersen
Description: Require the State Treasurer to establish an educational savings account for students enrolled in kindergarten through grade twelve at an approved or accredited public, private, denominational, or parochial school
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB14
Introducer: Cavanaugh, M.
Description: Adopt the Hunger-Free Schools Act
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Monday February 24, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB691
Introducer: Murman
Description: Require school districts and private, denominational, and parochial schools to display the Ten Commandments in school buildings
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB122
Introducer: Meyer
Description: Require display of the state and national motto in schools
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB549
Introducer: Lippincott
Description: Allow a school board to employ a chaplain, including in a volunteer capacity, at a school
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB426
Introducer: Andersen
Description: Authorize an American flag education program and change provisions relating to the distribution of lottery funds used for education
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB213
Introducer: Holdcroft
Description: Require the State Board of Education to adopt academic content standards on human embryology under the science education standards
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Tuesday February 18, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB417
Introducer: Bostar
Description: Provide for administration of the Nebraska Promise Program by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, adopt the College Promise Act, and change provisions relating to the Quality Education Accountability Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB517
Introducer: Juarez
Description: Provide requirements for the state school security director regarding protective door assemblies and other school entry systems
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB631
Introducer: Hansen
Description: State intent relating to funding for the School Emergency Response Mapping Fund
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB685
Introducer: Lonowski
Description: Require schools to install a secure master key box as prescribed, provide powers and duties to the state school security director, change provisions relating to a grant program for security-related infrastructure projects and the School Safety and Security Fund, and provide for a transfer from the Cash Reserve Fund
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB429
Introducer: Murman
Description: Provide requirements and restrictions for school boards relating to professional employees’ organizations
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Tuesday February 11, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB408
Introducer: Dungan
Description: Adopt the Special Education Teacher Forgivable Loan Program Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB598
Introducer: DeBoer
Description: Provide funding to school districts to cover extraordinary increases in limited English proficiency student expenditures, change provisions relating to the elementary site allowance and certification dates under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act and reimbursement for special education programs and support services, and change eligible uses of the Education Future Fund
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB589
Introducer: Conrad
Description: Change provisions relating to reimbursement for special education programs and support services and require school districts to provide special education staff with professional leave
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB653
Introducer: Murman
Description: Change provisions relating to reimbursement for special education programs, support services, and the enrollment option program, provide reimbursement for certain students under the enrollment option program, and change the authorized uses of the Education Future Fund
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB507
Introducer: Hunt
Description: Change provisions relating to school transportation expenses for children with disabilities
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Monday February 10, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB303
Introducer: Hughes
Description: Create the School Financing Review Commission and change provisions relating to budget authority under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB500
Introducer: DeBoer
Description: Create the School Financing Review Commission
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB597
Introducer: DeBoer
Description: Change provisions relating to foundation aid, local effort rate yield, adjusted valuations of property, and certification dates under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB498
Introducer: Murman
Description: Change provisions relating to foundation aid and certification dates under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB161
Introducer: Juarez
Description: Redefine formula students under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Tuesday February 04, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB670
Introducer: Murman
Description: Require schools to adopt a safety plan and provide and change requirements related to training for staff of child care and schools
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB140
Introducer: Sanders
Description: Require school policies relating to use of electronic communication devices by students
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB567
Introducer: Quick
Description: Authorize school policies relating to community engagement
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB31
Introducer: Conrad
Description: Require school policies relating to the use of student surveillance, monitoring, and tracking technology by school districts
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB428
Introducer: Murman
Description: Change provisions relating to school policies on the involvement of parents, guardians, and educational decisionmakers in schools
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Monday February 03, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB625
Introducer: Dover
Description: Provide for the establishment of a database of financial information from all school districts in the state
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB538
Introducer: Hardin
Description: Require school boards and postsecondary educational institutions to adopt a policy and provide training relating to discrimination and antisemitism and provide for Title VI coordinators
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB143
Introducer: Rountree
Description: Change provisions relating to student enrollment
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB390
Introducer: Murman
Description: Require each school board to adopt a policy relating to access by a parent, guardian, or educational decisionmaker to certain school library information
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB306
Introducer: Education Committee
Description: Change provisions relating to admission to elementary and secondary schools, the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges, the Nebraska Career Scholarship Act, the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Act, and the Door to College Scholarship Act and require a database of financial information regarding school districts and reporting regarding funding from foreign adversarial sources
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Tuesday January 28, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: LB249
Introducer: Sanders
Description: Provide for military impact funding and change provisions relating to local formula resources under the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: LB296
Introducer: Arch
Description: Require the State Department of Education to create a centralized education records system and employ registrars relating to students under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and change provisions relating to graduation requirements and the State Department of Education Improvement Grant Fund
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB335
Introducer: Conrad
Description: Redefine child under the In the Line of Duty Dependent Education Act
Education
Hearing status: Ended
Date: Monday January 27, 2025
Location: Room 1525
Time: 1:30 PM
Order
Status
Document
Introducer
Description
Currently or Pending before the Committee
1
Document: Appointment
Introducer:
Description: Edmond, Connie - Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges
Currently or Pending before the Committee
2
Document: Appointment
Introducer:
Description: Engles, Robert - Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges
Currently or Pending before the Committee
3
Document: LB378
Introducer: Andersen
Description: Require that each public or private two-year or four-year college or university provide a report to the Attorney General relating to certain funding from a foreign source
Currently or Pending before the Committee
4
Document: LB282
Introducer: Prokop
Description: Provide for reimbursement for teachers for school supplies
Currently or Pending before the Committee
5
Document: LB352
Introducer: Ballard
Description: Change provisions relating to reports on student achievement and discipline required under the Quality Education Accountability Act
Currently or Pending before the Committee
6
Document: LB300
Introducer: Murman
Description: Change provisions relating to the Superintendent Pay Transparency Act and provide a limit for superintendent and educational service unit administrator compensation